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Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to Be the ExpertsAvailability:In Stock

In Peer Feedback in the Classroom, National Board certified teacher Starr Sackstein explores the powerful role peer feedback can play in learning and teaching. Peer feedback gives students control over their learning, increases their engagement and self-awareness as learners, and frees up the teacher to provide targeted support where it's needed.

Drawing from the author's successful classroom practices, this compelling book will help you

Gain a deeper understanding of what meaningful feedback looks like and how it can be used as a tool for learning.

The book also includes extended reflections that express, in students' and teachers' own words, the approach's powerful effect on their practice. Invite students to be your partners in learning, and enrich your collective classroom experience.

E-BOOK: (ASCD E-Book, 2016) PDF e-book accompanied by bonus MOBI and EPUB files for use on e-book readers like the Kindle and the Nook. See the e-book FAQ link for information about device compatibility.

Students can now demonstrate their learning by using apps and online resources to conduct research, solicit feedback, and collaborate with others more effectively than ever before. Digital tools also provide teachers with effective ways to assess student work. Michael Fisher outfits you for this new world by opening your thinking to new possibilities for teaching and engaging 21st century students.

In Assessment: Getting Started with Student Portfolios: An ASCD PD Online® Course, you’ll explore the research behind implementing a portfolio assessment, as well practical ways to implement the portfolio assessment in the classroom. Using the strategies presented in the course, you’ll be better equipped to increase your students’ ownership of their learning, help them develop reflection skills, and engage them in projects that are meaningful to them.

Educator Myron Dueck reveals how many of the assessment policies that teachers adopt can actually prove detrimental to student motivation and achievement and shows how we can tailor policies to address what really matters: student understanding of content.

Meet that new challenge of implementing a standard-based approach to grading that ensures grades truly reflect your students' progress toward specific learning outcomes. ASCD best-selling author Cathy Vatterott offers you a new paradigm for standards-based grading with lots of concrete examples to help you decide what to grade or not grade, how to grade, and when.

Discover how to teach students to be reflective learners who are able to decipher their own learning needs and elicit evidence from their work to support their growth. The author's step-by-step plan ensures you build your students' abilities to set actionable learning goals, use a variety of tools and formats to chart and reflect on their progress, and consider their work against standards.

Drawing from a vast set of data from more than 17,000 classroom visits, this book reveals teaching practices that are most apt to shift classroom dynamics from teaching to learning, ensure students are doing the "work," and use assessments to advance the learning process. This is also an excellent guide for school leaders and teacher coaches who want a tried-and-true model for classroom walkthroughs that will open teachers' eyes to the strengths and weaknesses of their classroom practices.

Pam Robbins draws on her many years of experience in a wide variety of schools to explain surefire ways to create an effective peer coaching program or refine and strengthen the one you have. Her strategies and tools to build a collaborative, learning-focused culture will ensure you and your colleagues work together more effectively to improve professional practice in ways that enhance staff and student learning.

Teaching in the Fast Lane offers teachers a way to increase student engagement: an active classroom. Using the strategies in this book, teachers can strategically “let go” in ways that enable students to reach their learning targets, achieve more, be motivated to work, learn to collaborate, and experience a real sense of accomplishment.

Here are 51 easy-to-use, classroom-tested alternatives to the “stand and deliver” teaching techniques that cause so many students to tune out or drop out. Teachers report that these techniques motivate students to participate in learning, as they build confidence and are supported by compelling and safe ways to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of lessons.

In Building Equity, Dominique Smith, Nancy Frey, Ian Pumpian, and Douglas Fisher, colleagues at San Diego’s innovative Health Sciences High & Middle College, introduce the School Equity Taxonomy, a new model to clarify the structural and interpersonal components of an equitable and excellent schooling experience, and the School Equity Audit, a survey-based tool to help school and teacher leaders uncover equity-related issues. Built on the authors’ own experiences and those of hundreds of educators throughout the United States, this book is filled with examples of policy initiatives and practices that support critical standards of equity and high-quality, inclusive learning experiences.

Problem-based learning doesn’t require weeks of study or an end-of-year project. In this book, Brian Pete and Robin Fogarty show how you can use problem-based learning as a daily approach to helping students learn authentic and relevant content and skills. They explain how to engage students in each of the seven steps in the problem-based learning model, so students learn how to develop good questions, launch their inquiry, gather information, organize their information, create evidence, present their findings, and assess their learning.